On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Avi Greenbury <[email protected]> wrote: > Liam Proven wrote: > > Attempting to recreate the sort of tone of your email
Works for me. > >> [1] it's immune to all viruses and spyware >> [5] it reads and writes all Microsoft files and anything from any >> Windows or Mac program. > > If you're going to be picky and pedantic, at least be correct. These > two are patently incorrect[0],[1]. Claiming otherwise to anyone to whom > those are important traits will only dissapoint them when it turns out > that Linux/Ubuntu/whatever isn't the utopian OS they were sold it as. > One thing I'd really like us to advertise on is honesty - the openness > of bug reporting and the like, for example - and lying to get people to > use the OS doesn't sit particularly well with that. > > > [0] - Viruses for Linux/Unix abound. Go google. Sure, the OS is > relatively safe from them but most users care more about their own files > than their OS, and they've full write privileges to that. And all > tutorials now appear to start with 'sudo' in any case. Making people > believe that there are no viruses just means they'll think even less > before copying and pasting stuff into xterm. I am aware of a number of worms and a handful - a tiny handful - of virus-like programs that have been demonstrated under lab conditions. Out in the wild? I'm not aware of a single instance of a live Linux virus propagating in the wild. If you are, do please share your knowledge. > [1] As for reading and writing all MS files and anything from any Win > or OSX program, for obvious complete incompatibility AutoCAD and > FruitLoops come to mind. OOo/MSOffice compatibility is still nowhere > near good enough for one to just replace the other. I have no idea what "FruitLoops" is. AutoCAD I can believe would be difficult, but then, the only way to open an AutoCAD file is to have a copy of AutoCAD, isn't it? IOW, 99.99% of Windows PCs can't open AutoCAD files anyway. I have in the past found ways to view the contents of plain .DXF files; I would not be surprised if with some ingenuity, this could be done on Linux. I feel that my statements are entirely reasonable and acceptable generalisations and I do not agree with your attempted rebuttals. -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
